Public Health Research Analyst

About the role

The University of Chicago’s Section for General Internal Medicine (GIM) houses many outstanding multidisciplinary academic centers and programs. The Public Health Research Analyst will perform complex research-related and data quality tasks regarding the evaluation of the California Safety-Net Population Health Management Initiative (PHMI).

Responsibilities

• Maintains a close, collaborative working relationship with the PIs, the administrative team, and research staff within the Section/Project(s) to effectively manage research studies.
• Performs quality assurance audits (QA) as needed, as well as QA summary reports for staff (internally) and stakeholders (externally) in a timely, accurate manner.
• Develops and implements protocols to streamline and standardize data collection, storage, and processing across studies and datasets.
• Prepares analytic datasets for research recruitment, analyses, and data abstractions and preliminary descriptive statistics.
• Maintains code library and documentation.
• Provides professional support to staff or faculty members in defining the project and applying principals of data science in manipulation, statistical applications, programming, analysis and modeling.
• Generates documentation for projects, e.g. procedural manuals, protocol worksheets, codebooks, questionnaires, progress reports, addendums, and/or adverse event reports.
• Facilitates the execution of data usage agreements (DUA) and/or data quality plans to share data to internal and external partners/institutions.
• Demonstrates proficiency in the use of clinical and research-related computer programs.
• Attends multidisciplinary conferences and workshops.
• Analyzes moderately complex data sets for the purpose of extracting and purposefully using applicable information.
• Maintains technical and administrative support for a research project.
• Assists with preparation of reports, manuscripts and other documents.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
• Knowledge and skills developed through < 2 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
• Bachelor’s degree in the social sciences, data science, public policy, public health, or similar field.
• Experience maintaining and documenting source code for reproducibility of research and service projects.
• Background in biostatistics within clinical or public health research settings.
• Proficiency with one or more statistical analysis software packages, such as SAS, Stata, or R for data quality assurance and statistical analysis.
• Proficiency with Microsoft applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Excel, Access, and Word.